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Woozle Hypertwin, 02/28/2015 05:16 PM
| 1 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h1. Character |
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| 3 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Every [[Player]] has a Character that they control. There are usually other automatic (non-Player) characters (NPCs), and we may also allow interaction between Player Characters. (Should this be something that RPG authors can control?) |
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| 5 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | Characters have Qualities. Basically what they do all day is choose Cards, where each Card affects one or more Qualities in some way, which affects what Cards they get next, until the game ends. (How does the game end? Or does that even happen? Do Characters die?) |
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| 7 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h2. Character Qualities (CQ) |
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| 9 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | A useful way to set up Character Qualities is to think of them as Skills, Menaces, and Other: |
| 10 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * a Skill gives the Character more options |
| 11 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * each Skill has a corresponding Menace |
| 12 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | * if the character uses a Skill to attempt something, and the attempt fails, the corresponding Menace goes up |
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| 14 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | StoryNexus may have some code to automate the relationship between skills and menaces; for now, we will probably depend on the Author to set up these relationships via Cards -- if I'm understanding properly how they're supposed to work. |
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| 16 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | h2. Examples |
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| 18 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | The primary Skills in SnowRPG are Mind, Matter, Charm, and Magic; the corresponding Menaces are Weary, Wounded, Suspicious, and Troubled (is that in the same order?) |
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| 20 | 1 | Woozle Hypertwin | An "Other" CQ in SnowRPG is Chaos. |